50 Fall Crafts for Kids: Craft Ideas Your Family Will Love

Fall is one of my favorite times. With the beautiful fall colors, pleasant weather, and the holidays just around the corner, there is so much to love about this time of year. It is also an ideal time to get creative and crafty, and with a few fall craft ideas, you’ll be able to get started in no time. Kids are especially creative, so I’ve compiled a list of fall crafts for kids that will spark their imagination and get them excited about the season.

Here is a list of 50 Fall Crafts for Kids to inspire you and your littlest crafters.

DIY Fall Decorations

These DIY decorations are great fall crafts for kids (even as young as preschool) that will help bring the season to your home.

6. Faux Stained Glass Candy Corn: Even the littlest crafter can use colorful tissue paper to make this fall craft for kids. This is a great way to capture your baby, preschool, and toddler’s hands as they grow each year.

Beautiful Fall Trees

8. Fall Tree: Repurpose old magazines by finding and cutting pages with fall colors to make a collage for your Fall Tree project.

9. Paper Bag Fall Tree: Take a twisted paper bag and some colorful paper and you have a simple, but impressive fall craft project.

10. Paper Bag and Construction Paper Fall Tree: Here’s another great fall craft for preschoolers. Help trace their hands for the tree trunk on a brown paper bag, then let them glue on small pieces of colorful construction paper and tissue paper to finish off this project.

11. Fall Tree Preschool Craft: Grab a few empty Play Dough containers, paint, brown string, cardboard and glue and you can make this Fall Tree Preschool Craft.

12. Colored Button Fall Tree: Do you have extra buttons in pretty fall colors? Then you can make this imaginative Colored Button Fall Tree project.

13. Q-Tip Painted Fall Tree: There’s no need to buy paint brushes, just head to the bathroom to grab your Q-Tips and you and your kids (even preschoolers!) can create a charming, colorful fall tree.

Getting Crafty with Leaves

The brightly colored leaves are one of the first signals that fall is here, and these leaf-themed fall crafts for kids will let them make something crafty from the fall foliage.

14. Animal Leaf Craft: Here’s one of the cutest uses of leaves in this Animal Leaf Craft.

25. Fig Leaf Wind Chime: With the use of real fig leaves and clay, you can create a beautiful Fig Leaf Wind Chime. You may want to add additional accessories like glass, metal or bells to make a lovely chiming sound.

27. Painted Leaf Rubbing Mural: I remember this project as a child. Simply rub crayons over the leaves and then as a nice finishing touch you can use watered down food coloring to paint over the rubbings of this Leaf Rubbing Mural.

Use the Best Supplies…Those from Mother Nature

Gourds, pumpkins, pumpkin seeds, and pinecones are all part of fall, and with these fall crafts for kids, your children can make something cute from items provided by mother nature.

30. Gorgeous Gourds: Head outside for supplies for this fall craft. Grab assorted gourds or ornamental pumpkins and for the trimmings look for pine needles, pine cones, leaves and seeds to make this Gorgeous Gourd.

31. Pumpkin Seed Fall Craft: Do not get rid of pumpkin seeds, keep them to make this simple Pumpkin Seed Fall Craft.

32. Sunflower Card: Brighten someone’s day with this Sunflower Card complete with real sunflower seeds in the center.

33. Pine cone Birds: What’s not to love about these Pine Cone Birds? Find a couple of pine cones and glue on googly eyes, small pom-poms for the feet and a triangle felt nose to make these little cuties.

34. Pine Cone People: What goes well with Pine Cone Birds? Pine Cone People of course! Make these little guys with two pine cones, googly eyes and acorns for the heads.

35. Acorn Toadstools: Just grab some paint and acorns with caps and you can have yourself a bunch of Acorn Toadstools.